Nathan Bailey, Dictionarium Domesticum (1736)

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Date
1736
Lexicographer
Book title
Dictionarium Domesticum, Being a New and Compleat Hushold Dictionary. For the Use both of City and Country. Shewing, I. The whole Arts of Brewing, Baking, Cookery, and Pickling. Also Confectionary in its several Branches. II. The Management of the Kitchin, Pantry, Larder, Dairy, Olitory, and Poultry. With the proper Seasons for Flesh, Fowl, and Fish. III. The Herdsman: Giving an Account of the Diseases of Cattle, Poultry, &c. And the most approved Remedies for their Cure. IV. The English Vineyard; being the best Method of making English Wines and of Distilling most Kinds of Simple and Compound Cordial Waters. V. The Apiary: Or, The Manner of Breeding, Hiving and managing of Bees. VI. The Family Physician and Herbalist: Containing the choicest Collection of Receipts for most Distempers, incident to Human Bodies, hitherto made Publick; with the Qualities and Uses of Physical Herbs and Plants of English Growth.
Publication place
London
Publisher
C. Hitch, C. Davis, and S. Austen
Text type
printed book
Genre
Encyclopedia
Subject area
  • cooking
  • household
  • medicine
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: BITTER WINE. Take Gentian root a dram and a half; Centaury, Camomile flowers, tops of Carduus, Roman woodworm of each three drams; Rhubarb one dram, yellow peel of orange half a pound; Cloves, Mace and Nutmegs, of each one dram; infuse all these two days and nights, and then strain it; drink a glass fasting and another before dinner or supper. If you think proper you may add two ounces of filings of steel.
STC
T086942
Other editions
Thomas Fisher Rare Book jah 19686 (1736)
Criticisms
Simpson, John A. "Nathaniel Bailey and the Search for a Lexicographical Style." Lexicographers and their Works. Ed. G. James. n.p.: University of Exeter Press, n.d. 181-91. view record